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Basic hair dryers are of to watts. These hair dryers are inexpensive than the professional hair dryers, the coil in the most basic hair dryers is made of metal heating coil called nichrome. High wattage hair dryers are best suitable for thick, long and frizzy hair types. High wattage provides you higher temperature and this heat is not suitable for thin and flat hair type.
For people with short, flat and thin hair less wattage hair dryers are suitable and similarly thick, long and frizzy hair needs a high power hair dryer.
Basically, hair dryers consists of heating material called coil, this heating material is made of nichrome metal, a combination of nickel and chrome metals. The nichrome metal does not get oxidised on heating, such that this is a common heating metal used for toasters and hair dryers. Metal heating coils generate uneven heat and this uneven hot air can burn your hair at high temperatures.
Whereas the ceramic, tourmaline and titanium hair dryers provide you even heat and make your hair shiny and damage free. High wattage hair dryers are expensive and also reduce your dry time, because they are quick. Ceramic heaters are faster than the basic nichrome heaters, watts ceramic heater is equal to watts nichrome heating coil.
Ceramic hair dryers, here the heating coil is wrapped by the ceramic or porcelain clay or sometimes the internal body of the hairdryer is been made of ceramic clay. Overall, the aim of using ceramic clay inside the hair dryers is to get an even heat such that the hair remains shiny and undamaged on air blowing it.
Similarly the tourmaline hair dryers, here the crushed tourmaline gemstone is infused into the hair dryers. Tourmaline hair dryers emit negatively charged ions and even heat, which makes your hair shiny, moisturized and healthy. These type of hair dryers are preferable for regular hair drying. You can explore the concept of types in hair dryers. Hair dryer manufacturing brands like Philips and Panasonic do not provide the information about the heating coil material.
Weight and size of the hair dryer are the must feature to be looked before buying a hair dryer. Hair dryers are handheld devices, these devices should be balanced within your hands. The heavyweight hair dryers are not suitable for long, thick and curly hair types, as these hair types need more time to dry and heavy weight dryers may give a pain in your hand.
Styling your hair needs a bit longer time and these hair dryers not comfortable for styling. The hair dryers should be compact and foldable such that you can carry it in your bag.
Most hair dryers are small sized, but still, it is better to choose a foldable and small-sized dryer for frequent travellers. Different types of hair dryers uses different technologies like ionic hair dryers use ionic technology where ions are emitted, the discharged negative ions breaks the positively charged water molecules. This technology helps you in maintaining your hair shiny, moisturized and remains your hairstyle up to better time.
Ionic hair dryers are suitable for all hair types. Nanoe technology, the newly introduced technology by Panasonic. This technology is also called as static atomization phenomenon. This technology is somewhat similar to ionic technology, but unlike ionic hair dryer, nanoe hair dryers emit nano-sized charged microparticles, these charged microparticles locks the cuticles and makes your hair healthy and shiny.
Hair dryers come with few attachments like diffuser, concentrator nozzle, comb pick nozzle. All these attachments help you to focus the air on the required area of your hair. These attachments are best used for thick and frizzy hair types, as these hair types are dense and thick and they cannot be air dried easily. Diffuser and nozzle are helpful in air drying your hair from the downwards, the scalp. Diffusers and concentrator nozzle are mostly provided along the hair dryers itself, but the comb pick nozzle is not provided along with all hair dryers.
Diffusers are not provided by basic inexpensive hair dryers, you can buy this attachment if you need. Heat control settings are the hair dryer is the main thing to be checked before you go for it. As discussed above in the wattage point, hair dryers with high wattage provide you more heat temperature and also can burn your hair.
Heat control settings are to set your dryer temperature such that you can use it with your required temperature. Besides acting as a protective barrier and safeguarding the integrity of your hair, the concentrator nozzle is the real key to achieving salon-level results.
Another frizz-preventing tip: Don't start styling hair while it's still soaking wet. Hairstylists typically recommend using a boar bristle brush for the smoothest results. To get you started, we've rounded up the best blow-dryers for all hair types — as recommended by professional hairstylists and Allure editors — that'll help you achieve your hair goals.
Trust us: Quality makes all the difference when it comes to speed, durability, and a bomb-ass blowout. All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors.
However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Who has time to dry and style long hair in the morning? Revlon's best-selling Salon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer, which has picked up an Allure Best of Beauty Award winner in and a Readers' Choice Award in , gives wet hair a visible lift and gentle waves by simultaneously detangling, drying, and smoothing with its oval-shaped barrel and innovative airflow vents.
It didn't win a , , and Best of Beauty Award for nothing. Plus, though it's not technically a travel dryer, it's compact enough that one editor has been known to toss it in her suitcase anyway — because after using this tool, the ones stuck to hotel bathroom walls might as well be called hair-static electrocution machines.
Made with a quiet, brushless motor, this Best of Beauty Award winner sends out an airflow speed of 75 miles per hour for lightning-speed drying. The ultra-slim nozzle allows for precise drying and control. It also promises to give your hair 30 percent more shine than if you dry your hair naturally, so there's really no reason not to try it.
Talk about heavy duty. Even with these features, the model is surprisingly lightweight weighing in at 2. To set your style, simply hit the cool-shot button. Whether you have fine, curly, or super thick hair, this Best of Beauty Breakthrough Award winner is one of the best hair dryers Allure editors laid their eyes on. The Supersonic Hair Dryer features patented Air Multiplier technology that allows for a smaller and lighter motor, but with a faster drying time. Plus, the air temperature is measured 20 times every second, so you can finally say goodbye to heat damage and frizz.
Instead of tiring out both arms with a separate round brush and blow-dryer, the Best of Beauty -winning Hot Tools One-Step Pro Blowout Styler does it all — drying, volumizing, and styling — in one go. It features karat gold technology to ensure even heat distribution, three heat settings, as well as charcoal-infused bristles to refresh second-day or third-day hair.
The detachable head easily comes off for tight storage spaces and can be switched out with other Hot Tools attachments like a paddle brush head.
When hair queen Kristin Ess who works with Lauren Conrad and Jenna Dewan dropped a line of stunning and affordable hot tools , everyone flocked to Target to get their hands on them. In particular, the Iconic Style Professional Blow Dryer has a number of features you never knew you needed, like brushless motor technology, which lets this baby last a whopping 10 times longer than the usual motors. It also has an ion setting feature that you can turn on to get that shiny look or leave off for volume.
It's super quiet, too, and comes with a nozzle to smooth hair, as well as a diffuser for the curlies out there. All in all, this tool's a staple to achieve the cool hairstyles on Ess's famed Insta.
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